CONNECTICUT THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 289

Unwind after your Thanksgiving celebrations with live music from American Singer-Songwriter Jude Johnstone at Playhouse on Park! With the release of her seventh solo album, A Woman's Work and after a run of West Coast shows with Bonnie Raitt, Jude is taking her solo show to the road.

Westport Country Playhouse will host a Directors' Forum featuring directors Jack O'Brien, three-time Tony Award winner and former artistic director of The Old Globe; Oskar Eustis, artistic director of The Public Theater and Shakespeare in the Park; and Evan Yionoulis, Obie Award winner and professor

Black Francis, front man for the influential alternative rock band the Pixies, visited the cast of the National Tour of School of Rock - The Musical last weekend while the show was in Hartford, CT.

Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare's classic love story, with a cast of 20, period costuming, sword fights, and scenic design by a Tony Award winner, will be directed by Playhouse Artistic Director Mark Lamos at Westport Country Playhouse, from October 31 through November 19.

On Friday, November 3, the Performing Arts Center at 32 Below in New Milford will open 2 By Fierstein: The International Stud (part one of the multiple Tony Award-winning Torch Song Trilogy) and On Tidy Endings (from the award-winning Safe Sex).

'Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.

Over the last few centuries, people from all over the world have dreamed of a better life and sought out opportunities to live that life to the fullest.

The next date to take a tour of the historic Palace Theater before the end of the year is Today, October 28 at 11:00 AM.

Nineteen-time Grammy Award-winning performer Tony Bennett, along with Tony Award-winning star of theater, film and television James Naughton, will join the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) at its Annual Fall Gala today, October 28, 2017 in Old Greenwich, Connecticut.

On December 8, TheatreWorks New Milford will open their production of Stage Kiss, a comedy by Sarah Ruhl.

Take a break from your Thanksgiving preparations and come to Playhouse on Park for an extra-special Comedy Night on Wednesday, November 22 at 8pm (and don't forget to bring a bottle of wine!).

The Diary of Anne Frank, by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hacke (based upon 'Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl', newly adapted by Wendy Kesselman), is the next show in Playhouse on Park's Main Stage series, opening tonight, Friday, October 27 at 8pm, and running through November 19.

The Wilton Playshop will present The New Mel Brooks Musical: Young Frankenstein.

Back by popular demand for Halloween week, the Capital Classics Theatre Company presents radio-theatre style performances at The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford.

Milford actors, DANIELLE SULTINI and JIM BUFFONE are featured in Square One Theatre Company's CORE VALUES, the opening production its 28th Anniversary Season beginning November 2 and continuing through November 19, 2017.

Worth the trip! You've heard of triple threat talents, right? Performers who can act, sing and dance.

The Milford Arts Council presents Open Mic Night

Tina Huey makes her WTG directorial debut with this popular A.

Join Playhouse on Park in designating the Greater Hartford area as a premiere destination for the cultivation of innovative theatrical work! The Playwrights on Park Reading Series was created for this very purpose, and the next evening in this exciting series is Tuesday, November 7 at 7:30pm with Mi

Grab your besties and head to the Warner Theatre for SHOPKINS LIVE! SHOP IT UP! on Sunday, March 4 at 1 pm! Tickets go on sale October 27 at 10 am.

As part of its Fall Puppet Performance Series, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut will present Sleeping Beauty by Tanglewood Marionettes on November 4, 2017 at 11 a.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center announced today that is now accepting submissions for the 2018 National Music Theater Conference.

Jane Alexander, Judith Ivey, Dennis Arndt, and Christopher Michael McFarland light up world premiere of Matthew Barber's Fireflies.

The celebrated 5X5 Dance Festival brings together choreographers, performers, educators, and students to study and perform.

It would not be the holiday season without the timeless joy of THE NUTCRACKER! The Nutmeg Ballet Conservatory will present the full-length version of the classic tale on the Warner Theatre's Main Stage December 9 and 10, 2017.